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Introduction

Tor is known for being secure but slow. If you want to improve browsing speed a bit, please follow the following simple instructions for tweaking the Firefox web browser's settings:

Procedure 1

First, open Firefox's advanced settings menu by running about:config from the address bar. Upon entering this address, you will see a long list of internal settings. Modify the following ones and set them to the suggested values shown here for maximum performance:

Afterwards, just restart the browser and experience the difference! For some automated additional performance hacks, check out ​FireTune. Currently, FireTune is only for Win32, but you can do the same tweaks manually with the help of ​this page. Additionally, there is the ​FasterFox extension that is easy to install, and is also platform independent!